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Anyone who has been a teenager, or secretly still is, will find deft self-portraiture when taking a ride on this flagitiously funny Submarine.

From Time • Jun. 3, 2011

He felt, therefore, somewhat sore against the Brattles;—and then there was the fact that Carry Brattle, who had been regularly "subpœnaed," had kept herself out of the way,—most flagitiously, illegally and damnably.

From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony

It was necessary, not only to bribe, but to bribe more shamelessly and flagitiously than his predecessors, in order to make up for lost time.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

So far as I could learn the particulars of their previous history, they had lived flagitiously loose lives; such as must have corrupted their blood long before they became lepers.

From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Nordhoff, Charles

I pity you, sir; I grieve for you: you have talents of a certain kind, but your habits, wretchedly and flagitiously perverse, have made you act on most occasions like an idiot.

From Jane Talbot by Brown, Charles Brockden